Lee's Garage

[jr@corsasport]

so, cut it in half, randomly solder some wires then chuck it at brian when it doesn't run??

well i didnt want to involve brian as he wont make it work for me and then laugh lmao

[lee303]

lol, if he did it and to didn't work, he would be using that as an excuse, as he wouldn't actually know why it didn't work!!lmao

but yeah, i have a grinder, bring it up...

[jr@corsasport]

what i may do then is mount the engine, and then arrange to get it up there, hasnt cost me more than £200 so far including the car

just got to wait for other stuff like coilovers to arrive/actully be made

[lee303]

might be cheap, but its taking forever!!

[jr@corsasport]

thats because the money is not fortcomming as im funding the "other" project

soon all will tick along nicely

[spanishfly]

Dude if you can't get it to Lees. Give us a shout and i'll come over!
Only condition is I have to finish my Nova lmao

[lee303]

i thought the idea of the rac was that they come to you???

[jr@corsasport]

lmao

got to make the seat frame fit 1st, which apprently should fit, if they welded it straight :!

[William]

pics

[jr@corsasport]

will sort one out, needs about 5mm from either side removed, but tbh will wait till ive got the side mounts as will get one of those bargin red seats tony can get to use in it so might need modding anyway

[William]

I thought you bought a new pair of seats for the lupo anyway?

[jr@corsasport]

no bought one, because i wanted a red fibreglass/grp one from the great corbeau **** up order

[William]

noice, I got the sidemounts in the post today! cost a ****ign bomb.

chat thread ftw

[jr@corsasport]

yeah sorry lee

corbeau ones ?

[William]

ya mon

[corsakid]

good progress on the astra

[lee303]

so , a fun packed day at the garage today, felt just like old times tbh, caging up a slightly inappropriate yet brilliant car loll
JR even turned up, in a rather expensive shoe…tastefully modelled here by our very own by willay

then, we got on with fitting the cage!!

stripped the dash bar out, cut out some brackets, then started mocking up the foot plates


then lots of removing the cage, fitting the cage, getting git in the right place,

then welded the plates fully, and started proper welding

then just carried on with al the bits and bobs


then i tackled the dash bar, seemed easiest to do this



then got on with fitting the seat properly now e have side mounts, and there was much frivolity involing the ant and dec of the car modding world...lmao



so, a pretty good day, will be finishing off tomorrow and hopefully fitting the front plastic windows and passenger seat, and fitting the dash back in
stickered the nova a touch more today too, just to show it some love…

love it...

[jonlem]

Looking good, I am sure there was a reason on my mates mk4 why that dash support had to be removeable though, I cant for the life of me remember what though lol

Is that William ? is he 3ft tall or something LOL

[lee303]

lol, yeah thats willay, hes a bit more than three feet thoughlmao

as for the bar being removable, it probably needs to come out to do something with the heater blower setup, but whatever, its fixed nowlmao

[Benn]

Cage is pretty in pink.... Nice welding.

[spanishfly]

Bring stickers to ACE

Looking good

[lee303]

will do

[lee303]

oh my god, i have finally spotted a fatal flaw in the whole ethos of the nurburgundy astra, ITS NOT BLOODY BURGUNDY!!!
its maroon ffs, thats why the cage doesn't look the same colour!!
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[spanishfly]

Nurburmaroon don't have same ring!

[lee303]

righty, so a bit more shonky fun today, got 99% of the stuff done, just needs some finishing touches now
fitted a harness bar...

and yes, i know they aint quite level with each other, but the cope i did by eye fitted the cage so well it seemed stupid to redo it just for the sake of 5mm lmao

also got the dash back in, its probably not 100% where it was before, but it fits!! lmao

then got on with some sliders and front plastic, once willay had removed the mechanisms and glass




and fitted both the seats



and then it was off for a drive, willay said he noticed how much stiffer it was immediately(wahay!!! ) i had a go and it feels pretty good, a few tweaks may be on the horizon though, as ever once you do big changes you find things you'd like to do to make them slightly better...

did sticker it up though!!:thumbs:


so, a brilliant weekend all together